Election Time Again

Submitted on Wed, 30/03/2011 - 10:19am

Last week I managed to deliver a leaflet to over half the households in Castle Ward before the beginning of the qualifying period on Friday 25 March. The reason for doing this is that the cost does not count in the election expenses, so it makes the Budget go further. Many thanks to those who helped deliver. Now we have to plan how best to reach the postal voters and how we try and persuade more people to vote on the day. People are surprised how few Conservative Party members there are, but this is the figure from the One Nation Tory website. I knew they were desperate for members, as they even wrote to me asking me to rejoin. Somebody needs to update their database, as I was told I would never be allowed back in. The letter also said that there had been two by-elections, and the two Independents had been thrown out and replaced by Conservatives. This is not actually what happened: the Independents won: well done Mike Newman and Eric Buckmaster, not so well done Conservative Truth and Reconciliation.